Originally posted by Jorge the welcher
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"A fossilized Glossopteris tree in the Transantarctic Mountains grew there some 280 million years ago, before being rapidly covered with volcanic ash and turned to stone. ...
Those sites contain fossils from a period spanning from before to after the Permian extinction. After the extinction, Gulbranson said, the forests didn't disappear, but they changed. Glossopteris was out, but a new mix of evergreen and deciduous trees, including relatives of today's gingkoes, moved in. "What we're trying to research is what exactly caused those transitions to occur, and that's what we don't know very well," Gulbranson said. The plants are so well-preserved in rock that some of the amino acid building blocks that made up the trees' proteins can still be extracted, said Gulbranson, who specializes in geochemistry techniques. Studying these chemical building blocks may help clarify how the trees handled the southern latitudes' weird sunlight conditions, as well as the factors that allowed those plants to thrive but drove Glossopteris to its death..."
Back to Coppedge's article:Why should they disappear? Coppedge doesn't say. Nor is there any indication that they haven't become racemized.
Further on:Suggesting that the LiveScience journalist did more than read the press release.There's absolutely no reason to think so.Who said biological material lasted 280my? Not the researchers, certainly; the article suggests the amino-acids being studied are post-Permian, so much younger. It's also a very big stretch to classify amino-acids, which have been found in meteorites and hydrothermal vents, as biological material.Amino-acids are not biological tissue. There's no indication in any of the sources that any tissue has been preserved. That's another lie by Coppedge.
I'm perfectly happy to let the evidence for the age of these fossils speak - but for some reason Coppedge has ignored it completely. There's nothing in his commentary that even mentions how the fossils were dated. The whole article can be summed up as Coppedge claiming with no evidence that amino-acids can't be 280myo, therefore the earth is 0.006myo. There is no evidence here to support a young creation at all.
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